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The Both mechanical respirator
This film in two parts shows the mechanism of an artifical respirator (an iron lung) a female patient is shown being placed in the machine and then cared for by nurses (she is fed, groomed and given an enema). The second part starts with instructions as to what to do if there are electrical or...

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Wellcome Film, an online digital collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine, chronicles the history of medicine over the last 100 years. On the Internet Archive just over 200 titles are freely available under Worldwide non-commercial Creative Commons licences. The earliest footage dates from the founder, Sir Henry Wellcome's time (an American-born pharmaceutical magnate, 1853-1936) - rare footage from Gebel (or Jebel) Moya in the Sudan 1912-13 showing scenes of everyday life, archaeological digging, communal sports and recreation. Later decades are represented by films featuring breakthrough medicine such as surgical techniques and drug treatments. Many pioneering pharmacological processes including an enduring legacy of research into tropical medicine were developed by the business started by Sir Henry and have laid the foundations of the biomedical charity, the Wellcome Trust, of today.

Wellcome Film is a resource created by the Wellcome Library, part of Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection provides insight and information to anyone seeking to understand medicine and its role in society, past and present.

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